Thursday, March 24, 2005

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to order Terri Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted, rejecting a desperate appeal by her parents to keep their severely brain-damaged daughter alive.

The decision, announced in a terse one-page order, marked the end of a dramatic and disheartening four-day dash for her parents, Bob and Mary Schlindler, through the federal court system.

While the Left is busy giving each other imaginary limp-wristed high-fives, know that they 'won' by making a conscious effort to do nothing.

We can add the Terri Schiavo case to the growing list of legal battles the left has won not by democratic means, but by judicial activism.

Taxpayer funded abortion on demand? Yeah, that was a judge's idea. Partial-birth, no parental notification? Of course, a judge. Same-sex marriage? 66% of Americans say "no", but this judge and this judge order "yes"! Who found the right to sodomy in the Constitution? Guess.

The Left doesn't need to win elections when they have judges. Terri's case should make ultra-clear to Senate Republicans they need to constitutionally change the way they deal with the extra-legal Democratic judicial filibusters in order to end the Legislature of the Left.